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Planetes Deluxe Edition Book 1
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528 pages, Hardcover
Published July 29, 2025
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September 3, 2025
★★★★★
This one was a very pleasant surprise.
I picked this up expecting an easy read between two books. All I knew about it was that it was sci-fi.
What I got is a story about the personal and societal cost of human expansion, set against a hard sci-fi space background, and with well-developed characters.
It delves into themes like:
The psychological toll of isolation in space
Environmental concerns
Humanity’s drive for exploration vs. its ethical consequences
Mortality and the insignificance of the individual on a cosmic scale/Existentialism
Political tensions around space colonization
The meaning of home, belonging, and human connection
Just to name a few. It’s not always subtle or particularly deep, but it’s never bad or lazy either.
And the art is super nice. Makoto Yukimura is one hell of a cartoonist. Something that, in my opinion, most mangaka aren’t the best at is panel-to-panel flow, sometimes it devolves into chaos, and you have to reread several pages just to follow the narrative. None of that with Makoto. This guy knows how to establish a scene. He might honestly be one of the best I’ve seen in any medium: manga, US, or European comics.
This one was a very pleasant surprise.
I picked this up expecting an easy read between two books. All I knew about it was that it was sci-fi.
What I got is a story about the personal and societal cost of human expansion, set against a hard sci-fi space background, and with well-developed characters.
It delves into themes like:
The psychological toll of isolation in space
Environmental concerns
Humanity’s drive for exploration vs. its ethical consequences
Mortality and the insignificance of the individual on a cosmic scale/Existentialism
Political tensions around space colonization
The meaning of home, belonging, and human connection
Just to name a few. It’s not always subtle or particularly deep, but it’s never bad or lazy either.
And the art is super nice. Makoto Yukimura is one hell of a cartoonist. Something that, in my opinion, most mangaka aren’t the best at is panel-to-panel flow, sometimes it devolves into chaos, and you have to reread several pages just to follow the narrative. None of that with Makoto. This guy knows how to establish a scene. He might honestly be one of the best I’ve seen in any medium: manga, US, or European comics.
July 25, 2025
I was given a digital copy of this book to review.
The debut series from the Vinland Saga mangaka, Makoto Yukimura, gets the deluxe edition treatment.
This hard science fiction series follows several characters' stories, while diving into some pretty serious and sometimes deep topics. I definitely liked some characters more than others, but unfortunately struggled a bit to really connect to any of them. The story really tries to take a look at human nature in the face of all kinds of situations. It's philosophical, dark, gritty, funny, emotional, and everything in between. The art is nice overall, and sometimes really stunning. I also really love the covers for the deluxe editions.
The debut series from the Vinland Saga mangaka, Makoto Yukimura, gets the deluxe edition treatment.
This hard science fiction series follows several characters' stories, while diving into some pretty serious and sometimes deep topics. I definitely liked some characters more than others, but unfortunately struggled a bit to really connect to any of them. The story really tries to take a look at human nature in the face of all kinds of situations. It's philosophical, dark, gritty, funny, emotional, and everything in between. The art is nice overall, and sometimes really stunning. I also really love the covers for the deluxe editions.
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